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We just want to say thank you so much for the opportunity to move this forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a year ago, AASEG excitedly announced their intent to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987346/oakland-to-sell-coliseum-to-black-led-developer-group-after-as-depart\">buy and redevelop the former home of the Oakland A’s\u003c/a>, but contract negotiations and complicated ownership hang-ups have plagued the deal process, especially with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote to finalize the county’s role in the deal, according to Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, will finally give the group the power and assurance to begin that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teams prepare the field at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’ll be one organization that will own the entire Coliseum so that redevelopment and revitalization can move forward,” she told KQED ahead of the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s happening:\u003c/strong> Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors has been in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022106/alameda-county-moves-closer-to-oakland-coliseum-sale-final-vote-expected-in-30-days\">monthslong negotiation\u003c/a> with AASEG over the developers’ purchase of the A’s stake in the Coliseum. Even though the county \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742341/alameda-county-oks-plan-to-sell-its-share-of-oakland-coliseum-complex-to-as\">agreed to sell its half\u003c/a> to the Major League Baseball team in 2019, it has to approve the AASEG deal as the original owners, reassigning its interest from the A’s to a group formed by AASEG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s meant a series of closed-door meetings between negotiators, which Bas said have been spent hammering out the “complex” real estate deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, as the board inched closer to finalizing the agreement, Kimberly Gasaway, director of Alameda County’s general services agency, said there were just two outstanding documents that the county needed from AASEG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the board finally voted to reassign its interest in the property to the purchasing company, Oakland Acquisition Company, which is an affiliate of AASEG. Board President David Haubert and Supervisors Elisa Márquez, Nate Miley and Nikki Fortunato Bas all voted in favor of the sale. Board Vice President Lena Tam was excused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12036060 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>In early 2023, AASEG entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement with the city of Oakland to develop the Coliseum site. Over the summer of 2024, as the A’s prepared to play their\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006567/photos-fans-flood-coliseum-to-bid-emotional-farewell-at-as-last-game-in-oakland\"> final game at the Coliseum\u003c/a>, both \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997946/oakland-reaches-deal-on-105-million-coliseum-sale-to-stave-off-budget-cuts\">Oakland\u003c/a> and the team signed deals formalizing sales of their shares to AASEG for $105 million and $125 million, respectively. Shortly after, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">Oakland renegotiated its deal\u003c/a> with AASEG to increase its revenue by $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sale timelines have been delayed as months went by without Alameda County reassigning its interest in the site to the development company. The A’s deal cannot go through until the county does so, and AASEG has paused payments to Oakland, falling behind on its previously negotiated schedule, until the county deal is done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those deals are set to close in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zoom out: \u003c/strong>Slow-moving negotiations with Alameda County have been far from the only bump in the road for the Coliseum deal since 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, then-Mayor Sheng Thao announced that more than $60 million in revenue from the sale would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cutshttps:/www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cuts\">used to help patch an even larger hole in Oakland’s budget\u003c/a>. Shortly after AASEG and the city finalized their deal in July 2024, though, the payment timeline was pushed back, forcing the city to institute a bare-bones “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">contingency budget\u003c/a>” that caused fire station closures and police cuts, and eroded public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has not made any payments to the city since the start of the year. The projected revenue from the sale is not included in the city’s 2025 budget plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006691\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packed stands at the Oakland Coliseum for the A’s last home game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>It’s unclear if AASEG plans to hand Oakland a lump sum for the payments missed due to county delays, or if the deal timeline with either the city or Oakland will be further revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s $5 billion plan has raised eyebrows — and concerns about feasibility — since it was announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the sole owners, AASEG will also have to begin work on a community benefits agreement, which was required by its city deal. 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"headline": "After Months, Oakland Coliseum Sale Is Finally Up for Key Vote. Here’s What to Know",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:25 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a> sale has officially passed one of its last major hurdles: Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">of standstill\u003c/a>, waiting for the board’s approval, supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to reassign the county’s interest in the Coliseum property to local developers known as the African American Sports and Entertainment Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an important critical step in a monumental process,” Ray Bobbitt, managing partner of AASEG, said ahead of the vote. “This community has stepped forward and allowed us to be patient, perseverant and to make sure that we have been in prayer. We just want to say thank you so much for the opportunity to move this forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a year ago, AASEG excitedly announced their intent to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987346/oakland-to-sell-coliseum-to-black-led-developer-group-after-as-depart\">buy and redevelop the former home of the Oakland A’s\u003c/a>, but contract negotiations and complicated ownership hang-ups have plagued the deal process, especially with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote to finalize the county’s role in the deal, according to Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, will finally give the group the power and assurance to begin that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teams prepare the field at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’ll be one organization that will own the entire Coliseum so that redevelopment and revitalization can move forward,” she told KQED ahead of the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s happening:\u003c/strong> Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors has been in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022106/alameda-county-moves-closer-to-oakland-coliseum-sale-final-vote-expected-in-30-days\">monthslong negotiation\u003c/a> with AASEG over the developers’ purchase of the A’s stake in the Coliseum. Even though the county \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742341/alameda-county-oks-plan-to-sell-its-share-of-oakland-coliseum-complex-to-as\">agreed to sell its half\u003c/a> to the Major League Baseball team in 2019, it has to approve the AASEG deal as the original owners, reassigning its interest from the A’s to a group formed by AASEG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s meant a series of closed-door meetings between negotiators, which Bas said have been spent hammering out the “complex” real estate deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, as the board inched closer to finalizing the agreement, Kimberly Gasaway, director of Alameda County’s general services agency, said there were just two outstanding documents that the county needed from AASEG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the board finally voted to reassign its interest in the property to the purchasing company, Oakland Acquisition Company, which is an affiliate of AASEG. Board President David Haubert and Supervisors Elisa Márquez, Nate Miley and Nikki Fortunato Bas all voted in favor of the sale. Board Vice President Lena Tam was excused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>In early 2023, AASEG entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement with the city of Oakland to develop the Coliseum site. Over the summer of 2024, as the A’s prepared to play their\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006567/photos-fans-flood-coliseum-to-bid-emotional-farewell-at-as-last-game-in-oakland\"> final game at the Coliseum\u003c/a>, both \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997946/oakland-reaches-deal-on-105-million-coliseum-sale-to-stave-off-budget-cuts\">Oakland\u003c/a> and the team signed deals formalizing sales of their shares to AASEG for $105 million and $125 million, respectively. Shortly after, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">Oakland renegotiated its deal\u003c/a> with AASEG to increase its revenue by $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sale timelines have been delayed as months went by without Alameda County reassigning its interest in the site to the development company. The A’s deal cannot go through until the county does so, and AASEG has paused payments to Oakland, falling behind on its previously negotiated schedule, until the county deal is done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those deals are set to close in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zoom out: \u003c/strong>Slow-moving negotiations with Alameda County have been far from the only bump in the road for the Coliseum deal since 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, then-Mayor Sheng Thao announced that more than $60 million in revenue from the sale would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cutshttps:/www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cuts\">used to help patch an even larger hole in Oakland’s budget\u003c/a>. Shortly after AASEG and the city finalized their deal in July 2024, though, the payment timeline was pushed back, forcing the city to institute a bare-bones “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">contingency budget\u003c/a>” that caused fire station closures and police cuts, and eroded public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has not made any payments to the city since the start of the year. The projected revenue from the sale is not included in the city’s 2025 budget plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006691\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packed stands at the Oakland Coliseum for the A’s last home game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>It’s unclear if AASEG plans to hand Oakland a lump sum for the payments missed due to county delays, or if the deal timeline with either the city or Oakland will be further revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s $5 billion plan has raised eyebrows — and concerns about feasibility — since it was announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the sole owners, AASEG will also have to begin work on a community benefits agreement, which was required by its city deal. The deal aims to ensure that development \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041329/oaklands-army-base-redevelopment-was-a-win-for-locals-can-the-coliseum-be-the-same\">serves the surrounding East Oakland community\u003c/a>, where decades of disinvestment by businesses and the A’s have decimated the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has already committed to making 25% of any housing built affordable, and in the next five years, will have to begin to negotiate a bundle of other community benefits with stakeholders like Black Cultural Zone, Brotherhood of Elders, local youth centers and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shonda Scott, one of the entertainment group’s members, told KQED when the deals were being negotiated that AASEG is looking forward to that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s us being of the community, giving back to the community and making sure it’s done equitably, especially for those who have been historically disenfranchised in these sixth and seventh district areas that the Coliseum is a part of,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is backing down — somewhat — from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044180/spike-in-homelessness-stalled-after-sf-started-these-programs-lurie-is-slashing-them\">his effort\u003c/a> to sweep money set aside for homeless prevention programs and permanent housing to instead fund temporary shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044717/dozens-of-protesters-disrupt-sf-supervisors-meeting-to-resist-city-job-cuts\">community groups and experts\u003c/a> warned that the mayor’s plan, proposed last month, could inadvertently inflate the need for temporary shelter if more permanent housing is not available for people to move into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not perfect, but it’s way better than where we started,” said Christin Evans, co-chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission. “If you put all your investment into shelter, you aren’t ending homelessness. You’re perpetuating homelessness and warehousing people. So we need more housing that people can exit shelter into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 14 hours of tense closed-door negotiations, the city’s Budget and Appropriations Committee at 2 a.m. Thursday voted to move the amended $16 billion budget proposal forward to the full Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors also preserved funding for 57 of 100 filled jobs that Lurie had proposed to cut to help balance the city’s nearly $800 million deficit. Lurie had proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">eliminating around 1,400 positions\u003c/a>, most of which are currently vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Passing this budget also required painful decisions that were, unfortunately, necessary to set up our entire city for success,” Lurie said in a statement on Thursday morning. “Leadership means making those tough decisions, and this group of city leaders did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie delivers remarks on a progress report of his first 100 days in office at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in San Francisco on April 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s initial plan would have reappropriated nearly $88 million from the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to generate revenue for homeless services by taxing the city’s wealthiest businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, about 50% of Proposition C dollars are slated for permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After weeks of negotiations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts\">protests\u003c/a> from community advocates, the mayor and supervisors agreed to reallocate $34 million toward shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of services, a lot of restorations that we are used to being able to make possible that won’t be reflective of this budget,” Supervisor Shamann Walton said at the marathon hearing. “But most certainly we did work hard to do everything we could to continue critical services.”[aside postID=news_12045555 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-SF-BUDGET-ACTIVISTS-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg']Much of the friction came down to whether Lurie would need a supermajority to make changes to the funding allocations, which were established in the law approved by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the proposal have asserted that the move could potentially violate the law. San Francisco’s city attorney released a memo warning of legal risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this even legal?” Supervisor Jackie Fielder said at the meeting. “It’s absurd that I have to ask that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie must still present legislation to the Board of Supervisors in order to shift the funding. The committee ultimately voted to release its power and require only a simple majority in order to reallocate up to $19 million in future revenue from the Our City, Our Home fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not unreasonable, especially within a limited period of time, to give this new administration a modest amount of flexibility with unanticipated extra funds that may come in,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of the amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other supervisors fired back at the idea, saying the board was caving to the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This mayor wants you to give up the last thing we have, which is the will of the voters,” Fielder said. “I’m hearing people say, ‘What’s the big deal?’ The big deal is precedent … The big deal is democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials are unlikely to make substantive changes to the budget after this week’s vote. The entire board will consider the budget on July 15 and must send it to the mayor for his signature before Aug. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can be assured that, as someone who has been in and out of that room and walking down this hall, this is not everything that Mayor Lurie wants,” said Supervisor Connie Chan, chair of the budget committee. “A great portion of it is really what the board wants, too, for the people who elected us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie made solving street homelessness a central part of his platform while running for mayor last year. Since taking office in January, he’s launched a handful of initiatives aimed at targeting homelessness from different angles, as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031581/first-look-sf-mayor-luries-yearlong-plan-homelessness-response\">his “Breaking the Cycle” plan\u003c/a>. So far, it’s included opening up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\">drop-in behavioral health site in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>, consolidating street crisis response teams and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034214/san-francisco-ends-health-programs-for-drug-users-not-active-in-treatment\">walking back some publicly-funded overdose prevention programs\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12045887 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ggbridge_003_qed.jpg']This spring, Lurie also launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040581/to-revitalize-downtown-sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-taps-citys-wealthy-elite\">a public-private fund to raise money\u003c/a> for building more temporary shelter beds. Even with private sector support, however, Lurie will not meet a key campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds in his first six months in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor has said the city needs more shelter beds in order to get more people off the street quicker and connected to other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am confident that this budget answers San Francisco’s call for us to build a safer, cleaner and thriving San Francisco,” Lurie said in a press conference on Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because there is not enough housing for people to move into after they land in a shelter. Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller using data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1991px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1991\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg 1991w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1991px) 100vw, 1991px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor triage center at the 469 Stevenson St. parking lot in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who were arrested get dropped off, where they can either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operating as a 30-day pilot program, also offers resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates feared that stripping money set aside for homeless prevention could cause more people to become homeless, increasing the immediate need for temporary shelters. Without enough permanent supportive housing, advocates said, the city would exacerbate the bottleneck of people entering and exiting the homelessness response system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about creating balance between shelter and housing,” Evans said. “That’s where we landed, instead of putting all our investments into one part of the system: building shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community advocates agree that the city could use more shelter beds. But concerns that funding temporary beds at the expense of prevention programs and housing that people can move into after a shelter stay have been a sticking point in budget negotiations this month, which have also addressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts#:~:text=Lurie's%20proposal%20balances%20a%20%24782,positions%20across%2040%20different%20departments.\">Lurie’s proposed cuts to nonprofits\u003c/a> and legal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a deep sense of anger and sadness as nonprofits will have to close their doors. Many services were not saved,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, an organizer with the People’s Budget Coalition, a group of around 150 organizations fighting against the proposed layoffs and cuts to community services. “But we are deeply proud of the services we were able to restore, like general legal aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Much of the friction came down to whether Lurie would need a supermajority to make changes to the funding allocations, which were established in the law approved by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the proposal have asserted that the move could potentially violate the law. San Francisco’s city attorney released a memo warning of legal risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this even legal?” Supervisor Jackie Fielder said at the meeting. “It’s absurd that I have to ask that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie must still present legislation to the Board of Supervisors in order to shift the funding. The committee ultimately voted to release its power and require only a simple majority in order to reallocate up to $19 million in future revenue from the Our City, Our Home fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not unreasonable, especially within a limited period of time, to give this new administration a modest amount of flexibility with unanticipated extra funds that may come in,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of the amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other supervisors fired back at the idea, saying the board was caving to the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This mayor wants you to give up the last thing we have, which is the will of the voters,” Fielder said. “I’m hearing people say, ‘What’s the big deal?’ The big deal is precedent … The big deal is democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials are unlikely to make substantive changes to the budget after this week’s vote. The entire board will consider the budget on July 15 and must send it to the mayor for his signature before Aug. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can be assured that, as someone who has been in and out of that room and walking down this hall, this is not everything that Mayor Lurie wants,” said Supervisor Connie Chan, chair of the budget committee. “A great portion of it is really what the board wants, too, for the people who elected us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie made solving street homelessness a central part of his platform while running for mayor last year. Since taking office in January, he’s launched a handful of initiatives aimed at targeting homelessness from different angles, as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031581/first-look-sf-mayor-luries-yearlong-plan-homelessness-response\">his “Breaking the Cycle” plan\u003c/a>. So far, it’s included opening up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\">drop-in behavioral health site in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>, consolidating street crisis response teams and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034214/san-francisco-ends-health-programs-for-drug-users-not-active-in-treatment\">walking back some publicly-funded overdose prevention programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This spring, Lurie also launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040581/to-revitalize-downtown-sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-taps-citys-wealthy-elite\">a public-private fund to raise money\u003c/a> for building more temporary shelter beds. Even with private sector support, however, Lurie will not meet a key campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds in his first six months in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor has said the city needs more shelter beds in order to get more people off the street quicker and connected to other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am confident that this budget answers San Francisco’s call for us to build a safer, cleaner and thriving San Francisco,” Lurie said in a press conference on Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because there is not enough housing for people to move into after they land in a shelter. Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller using data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1991px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1991\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg 1991w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1991px) 100vw, 1991px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor triage center at the 469 Stevenson St. parking lot in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who were arrested get dropped off, where they can either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operating as a 30-day pilot program, also offers resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates feared that stripping money set aside for homeless prevention could cause more people to become homeless, increasing the immediate need for temporary shelters. Without enough permanent supportive housing, advocates said, the city would exacerbate the bottleneck of people entering and exiting the homelessness response system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about creating balance between shelter and housing,” Evans said. “That’s where we landed, instead of putting all our investments into one part of the system: building shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community advocates agree that the city could use more shelter beds. But concerns that funding temporary beds at the expense of prevention programs and housing that people can move into after a shelter stay have been a sticking point in budget negotiations this month, which have also addressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts#:~:text=Lurie's%20proposal%20balances%20a%20%24782,positions%20across%2040%20different%20departments.\">Lurie’s proposed cuts to nonprofits\u003c/a> and legal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a deep sense of anger and sadness as nonprofits will have to close their doors. Many services were not saved,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, an organizer with the People’s Budget Coalition, a group of around 150 organizations fighting against the proposed layoffs and cuts to community services. “But we are deeply proud of the services we were able to restore, like general legal aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of activists flooded \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s City Hall Monday to protest cuts to nonprofit funding in the city’s pending budget, saying the mayor is pulling back support for working-class and low-income San Franciscans at a time these communities are facing threats from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During more than eight hours of public comment on the city’s spending plan, hundreds of housing caseworkers, immigrants’ rights advocates and nonprofit employees set to have their budgets and roles slashed to cure the city’s massive shortfall, voiced their frustrations to city supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco was built on the backs of immigrants and working-class communities of color, and right now, we need San Francisco to put its money where its mouth is,” said Claire Lau, a campaign coordinator with the Chinese Progressive Association. “We see that in all levels of government, our social safety net is already falling apart … We need the city to strengthen our social safety net here, right at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal balances a $782 million shortfall over the next two years, in part by shaving $200 million off of nonprofits’ budgets. Public safety departments and his own office maintain their funding under his plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal also eliminates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044717/dozens-of-protesters-disrupt-sf-supervisors-meeting-to-resist-city-job-cuts\">1,400 city positions\u003c/a> across 40 different departments. Many of these positions are vacant, but about 400 are currently staffed, and around 100 people could be laid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045558\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-SF-BUDGET-ACTIVISTS-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-SF-BUDGET-ACTIVISTS-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-SF-BUDGET-ACTIVISTS-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-SF-BUDGET-ACTIVISTS-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the public line up to provide public comment on San Francisco’s proposed budget at City Hall in San Francisco on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Organizers gathered Monday during the board’s Budget and Appropriations Committee meeting, some of whom have begun calling themselves the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042690/sf-labor-unions-community-groups-decry-budget-cuts-at-city-hall\">People’s Budget Coalition\u003c/a>, suggested instead that cuts should come from the police’s $60 million overtime budget, and continued funding for a jail in San Bruno that was initially slated to be opened temporarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Chiera, the executive director of Legal Services to the Elderly, which works with seniors to ensure they aren’t evicted, said the organization is preparing to lose all funding for its general legal services division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the service is essential to protect tenants — like a recent senior whose landlord locked him out and turned off his power after he refused a request to leave.[aside postID=news_12044717 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250617_SFBUDGETPROTEST_GC-23-KQED.jpg']“The only way to get that power back on for a 77-year-old with severe mobility issues — who has no light, no power, no heat — is to go to court and sue and get a court order ordering that landlord to turn that power on and to not change the keys,” Chiera said. “That was funded by the funding that’s being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition is especially concerned about reduced services for immigrants, given the recent escalation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget plan cuts $250,000 from the Office of Civic Engagement and Immigration Affairs during its second year, and makes deep cuts to nonprofits that serve immigrant families in need of legal support and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042887/ice-arrests-15-people-in-san-francisco-including-a-child\">at least 20 people\u003c/a> have been disappeared by ICE agents at court hearings and asylum case check-ins in San Francisco. In Southern California, ICE agents have arrested people at high school graduations, workplaces and gas stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant families are being torn apart at schools, at workplaces, and in communities,” Lau said. “Some are afraid to go to school, some are afraid to go work and those who do go to work are afraid to speak up when their rights are being violated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036905\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with SFMTA employees at 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She called on the supervisors to increase funding for the city’s Rapid Response Network, which verifies and reports ICE raids, and protect immigrant-oriented food security programs and mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around noon, nearly two hours into the marathon comment period, coalition leaders unrolled banners over the City Hall rotunda’s second- and third-story railings that read “No Cuts!” and “New Jail steals $$ from crucial services,” referring to the ongoing funding for the San Bruno annex. Organizers lined the stairs of the room with signs urging the supervisors to “Protect Immigrants Rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about five minutes, sheriff’s officers confiscated the banners, but the long line of commenters winding through the caverns stayed put for another six hours, organizer Anya Worley-Ziegmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We appeal to the Board of Supervisors today to look at options,” said Joe Wilson, the executive director of Hospitality House, a community center that serves the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods. “Options create possibilities, possibilities create hope. Hope is what we need in this budget … and we need a board that fights for hopefulness and fights for its people every single day of the year, not just on budget day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Budget and Appropriations committee will reconvene to discuss amendments to the city’s budget on Wednesday, after which it will advance to the whole board for a vote, likely on the July 1 deadline next Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The only way to get that power back on for a 77-year-old with severe mobility issues — who has no light, no power, no heat — is to go to court and sue and get a court order ordering that landlord to turn that power on and to not change the keys,” Chiera said. “That was funded by the funding that’s being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition is especially concerned about reduced services for immigrants, given the recent escalation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget plan cuts $250,000 from the Office of Civic Engagement and Immigration Affairs during its second year, and makes deep cuts to nonprofits that serve immigrant families in need of legal support and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042887/ice-arrests-15-people-in-san-francisco-including-a-child\">at least 20 people\u003c/a> have been disappeared by ICE agents at court hearings and asylum case check-ins in San Francisco. In Southern California, ICE agents have arrested people at high school graduations, workplaces and gas stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant families are being torn apart at schools, at workplaces, and in communities,” Lau said. “Some are afraid to go to school, some are afraid to go work and those who do go to work are afraid to speak up when their rights are being violated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036905\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with SFMTA employees at 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She called on the supervisors to increase funding for the city’s Rapid Response Network, which verifies and reports ICE raids, and protect immigrant-oriented food security programs and mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around noon, nearly two hours into the marathon comment period, coalition leaders unrolled banners over the City Hall rotunda’s second- and third-story railings that read “No Cuts!” and “New Jail steals $$ from crucial services,” referring to the ongoing funding for the San Bruno annex. Organizers lined the stairs of the room with signs urging the supervisors to “Protect Immigrants Rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about five minutes, sheriff’s officers confiscated the banners, but the long line of commenters winding through the caverns stayed put for another six hours, organizer Anya Worley-Ziegmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We appeal to the Board of Supervisors today to look at options,” said Joe Wilson, the executive director of Hospitality House, a community center that serves the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods. “Options create possibilities, possibilities create hope. Hope is what we need in this budget … and we need a board that fights for hopefulness and fights for its people every single day of the year, not just on budget day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Budget and Appropriations committee will reconvene to discuss amendments to the city’s budget on Wednesday, after which it will advance to the whole board for a vote, likely on the July 1 deadline next Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:45 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a dozen people were arrested Tuesday afternoon after disrupting a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting where lawmakers were set to discuss a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">budget plan that makes significant cuts to city jobs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 members of local labor unions and supporters rose from the chamber benches in City Hall shortly after the 2 p.m. meeting began, filling the large room with signs and chanting “Protect public services” and “Whose city? Our city.” They say Mayor Daniel Lurie’s plan to issue the city’s first layoff notices in more than a decade is unnecessary and threatens to further constrain under-resourced departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here once again — it’s not our first time — because we are 100% not OK with all of these layoffs that are proposed in this budget,” said Nicole T. Germain, vice president of representation for the Service Employees International Union Local 1021, one of several unions that represents San Francisco city workers. “There is absolutely no reason that this budget should be balanced on the back of our hardworking San Franciscans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s deputies blocked the barricade between protesters and the board but remained mostly silent for more than 20 minutes as the demonstration continued. Supervisors cleared the room when the board went into recess just after 2:30 p.m., and they were not expected to return for at least an hour. The protestors remained in the chambers until after 3:30 p.m., at which point 11 people who were sitting on the chamber floor were arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were cited for intentionally obstructing business and were released shortly after, according to the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who walked around to the side of the chamber where protesters were gathered, told KQED during the recess that she understood their concerns. She echoed statements Supervisor Connie Chan \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/13/sf-layoffs-daniel-lurie-budget-connie-chan/\">made last week to the \u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, indicating that she would eye both vacant and filled managerial positions for potential reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a sanctuary city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Their demands are reasonable as to have no layoffs in this budget, and I’m hopeful that this board and the budget committee are able to figure something out to make sure that jobs are saved,” Fielder said. “At the end of the day, it’s city services, and we’re also in general severely understaffed, so we can’t afford any cuts to public services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Chan also expressed her solidarity with the protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest came ahead of the board’s first discussion of Lurie’s proposed budget for the next two fiscal years. The mayor has proposed deep cuts to the city’s workforce, with 1,400 positions eliminated across 40 departments, as part of his plan to close a $782 million shortfall exacerbated by federal and state funding cuts and expensive pushback against the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the positions are vacant, and only about 17 of the affected departments stand to lose roles that are currently filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those whose positions will be eliminated, some are retiring and won’t be replaced. But up to about 100 workers could be issued layoff notices — something the city hasn’t had to do for 15 years.[aside postID=news_12042755 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-LURIEPRESSER-04-BL-KQED.jpg']“A crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions, and I’m prepared to make them,” Lurie said when he announced his plan in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors must pass a balanced budget before the new fiscal year begins in July. This week, supervisors will begin their amendment process and hold hearings with the city departments affected by proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Francisco is steeling itself for a decline in federal funding under the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $140 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funding that the city used to shelter unhoused residents during the COVID-19 pandemic could be clawed back. President Trump has also threatened to pull money from sanctuary cities like San Francisco, and during a hearing in the city’s Budget and Appropriations Committee last week, Chan said officials are expecting cuts to Medicaid, which more than 17% of San Francisco residents rely on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan said during the budget hearing that the city has “no good options,” citing the Trump administration’s threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/news/2025-05-20/balancing-san-franciscos-budget-part-2-revenues-and-expenditures\">received just under $1 billion in federal grants\u003c/a>, according to the Bay Area-based think tank SPUR. The city’s total spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year is $15.9 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044833\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250617_SFBUDGETPROTEST_GC-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250617_SFBUDGETPROTEST_GC-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250617_SFBUDGETPROTEST_GC-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250617_SFBUDGETPROTEST_GC-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over a hundred SEIU 1021 and IFPTE Local 21 union workers conduct a sit-in, protesting against Mayor Lurie’s budget proposal that would call for hundreds of layoffs, during a Board of Supervisors meeting at City Hall on June 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is also facing potentially costly litigation from Airbnb and Google, which are trying to recoup $145 million they claim they were forced to overpay in city taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor groups have pushed back in force since Lurie made his proposal public, saying the city could have worked with their leaders to avoid layoffs and should instead be focused on retaining the tax revenue from Airbnb and Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the labor cuts, many grant-making departments are set to lose money, and about $100 million in grants and contracts have been sliced from the budget. The district attorney’s and public defender’s offices, along with public safety departments, would mostly maintain their funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office itself will have an increased budget in the coming years, though a spokesperson told KQED that was due to previously negotiated wage increases, not new positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mayor Lurie’s budget tackles the city’s historic budget deficit head-on, doubling down on the core services that are driving our recovery and bringing San Francisco back,” Lurie’s spokesperson Charles Lutvak said in a statement. “To do that amid serious uncertainty in the state and federal budgets, we can only spend the money we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:45 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a dozen people were arrested Tuesday afternoon after disrupting a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting where lawmakers were set to discuss a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">budget plan that makes significant cuts to city jobs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 members of local labor unions and supporters rose from the chamber benches in City Hall shortly after the 2 p.m. meeting began, filling the large room with signs and chanting “Protect public services” and “Whose city? Our city.” They say Mayor Daniel Lurie’s plan to issue the city’s first layoff notices in more than a decade is unnecessary and threatens to further constrain under-resourced departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here once again — it’s not our first time — because we are 100% not OK with all of these layoffs that are proposed in this budget,” said Nicole T. Germain, vice president of representation for the Service Employees International Union Local 1021, one of several unions that represents San Francisco city workers. “There is absolutely no reason that this budget should be balanced on the back of our hardworking San Franciscans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s deputies blocked the barricade between protesters and the board but remained mostly silent for more than 20 minutes as the demonstration continued. Supervisors cleared the room when the board went into recess just after 2:30 p.m., and they were not expected to return for at least an hour. The protestors remained in the chambers until after 3:30 p.m., at which point 11 people who were sitting on the chamber floor were arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were cited for intentionally obstructing business and were released shortly after, according to the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who walked around to the side of the chamber where protesters were gathered, told KQED during the recess that she understood their concerns. She echoed statements Supervisor Connie Chan \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/13/sf-layoffs-daniel-lurie-budget-connie-chan/\">made last week to the \u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, indicating that she would eye both vacant and filled managerial positions for potential reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a sanctuary city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Their demands are reasonable as to have no layoffs in this budget, and I’m hopeful that this board and the budget committee are able to figure something out to make sure that jobs are saved,” Fielder said. “At the end of the day, it’s city services, and we’re also in general severely understaffed, so we can’t afford any cuts to public services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Chan also expressed her solidarity with the protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest came ahead of the board’s first discussion of Lurie’s proposed budget for the next two fiscal years. The mayor has proposed deep cuts to the city’s workforce, with 1,400 positions eliminated across 40 departments, as part of his plan to close a $782 million shortfall exacerbated by federal and state funding cuts and expensive pushback against the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the positions are vacant, and only about 17 of the affected departments stand to lose roles that are currently filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those whose positions will be eliminated, some are retiring and won’t be replaced. But up to about 100 workers could be issued layoff notices — something the city hasn’t had to do for 15 years.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Medical debt. Messy divorce. Wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When hard life moments meet \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s sky-high housing costs, homelessness can quickly become a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the case for Nina, a mother who sought legal aid at the nonprofit Open Door Legal two years ago after facing domestic abuse by her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it weren’t for them, realistically, my daughter and I would have probably been evicted, and we would have ended up living on the streets or in a shelter,” said Nina, who lives in the Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina, who did not use her full name for safety reasons, told KQED she was trying to get child support when her husband refused to pay “even a single penny” after he left her and her daughter, who has a disability. Legal aid helped her navigate restraining orders, threats of eviction, and obtain child support, keeping her and her daughter housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an effort to direct more dollars toward temporary shelter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is proposing to shift funding away from programs that help lower-income residents fight costly legal cases and other homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Tirtanadi stands outside City Hall in San Francisco on June 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nasicmento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will affect residents all over the city. Homeowners who suffer wrongful foreclosures, domestic violence survivors and much more,” said Adrian Tirtanadi, executive director of Open Door Legal, which is slated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043582/he-says-legal-aid-fights-poverty-in-sf-now-hes-starting-a-hunger-strike\">to lose nearly half of its city-supported funding\u003c/a> under Lurie’s budget proposal. He’s since started a hunger strike to stress the urgency of the budget cuts. “It will especially, or maybe most profoundly, make the homeless crisis worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is facing a nearly $800 million budget deficit, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">Lurie has warned tough cuts lie ahead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is now proposing significant cuts across the board to balance the budget, which include eliminating about 1,400 mostly vacant positions and roughly $100 million in grants and contracts. The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is slated to be hit hardest with cuts of about $83.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions, and I’m prepared to make them,” Lurie said in his budget announcement. “The budget I’m introducing today faces the $800 million deficit head-on.”[aside postID=news_12043568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg']While balancing the budget, Lurie is also trying to fulfill an ambitious campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> a goal still far from completion even as his first half-year approaches. On any given day, the online waitlist for shelter is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">hundreds of names long\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget, which must be finalized by the end of June, underscores an explicit shift toward investing in temporary shelter and transitional beds, rather than permanent supportive housing and prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Mayor’s proposed budget includes new investments to expand interim housing capacity to support immediate pathways from streets to stability for our most vulnerable residents,” the budget proposal reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reallocation comes about a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">the U.S. Supreme Court ruled\u003c/a> that cities can cite and arrest unhoused people who refuse offers of shelter. But San Francisco doesn’t have enough shelter to offer many of the people living on sidewalks or in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line Fulton Street near San Francisco City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To change that, Lurie also wants to tap into roughly $90 million over the next three years in existing dollars in the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to tax the city’s wealthiest companies and fund homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was quickly challenged in court by groups such as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the California Business Properties Association and the California Business Roundtable. In 2020, the California Supreme Court allowed the measure to move forward and revenue was finally released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the majority of Proposition C dollars are allocated toward permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.[aside postID=news_12043516 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I will seek approval to unlock critical funds we need to build the types of interim housing and treatment that we need right now to get families and young people off the street and on the path to stability,” Lurie said in the budget address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’ll need support from the Board of Supervisors to shift funding away from prevention services to shelter, and it’s unclear if he’ll have enough votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, several supervisors, including progressive and moderate-leaning Democrats — such as Joel Engardio, Chyanne Chen, Bilal Mahmood, Stephen Sherrill and Jackie Fielder — spoke at a rally in support of funding permanent housing and legal aid programs covered by Proposition C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness experts at the rally cautioned that cutting prevention services, like legal aid and meal programs, will likely lead to a spike in homelessness, increasing the demand for shelter beds even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller, which looked at shelter data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A pink suitcase, shoes and a unicorn toy lie next to and on a blue bed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child’s belongings sit next to a shelter bed set up in an auditorium at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. The school operates as one of San Francisco’s largest shelters for families experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit Dolores Street Community Services runs the shelter after hours and during the summer when school is not in session for San Francisco Unified School District students and their families. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Right now, a very small percentage of people can leave shelter to housing. We really need more housing exits,” said Christin Evans, a small-business owner in San Francisco and vice chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission. “The population of people that are on the waitlist for family shelter has been growing substantially, and it’s outpacing the ability to provide adequate shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget invests $91.2 million over three years to open and operate about 630 new shelter beds, plus an additional $31.6 million to maintain the city’s current shelter system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for prevention, the mayor’s budget preserves existing funding for right-to-counsel programs aimed at tenants facing eviction and other housing stabilization programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was one of the first U.S. cities to pioneer a right-to-counsel program in 2019, after voters passed the No Eviction Without Representation Act that gave all residents facing eviction the right to legal defense.[aside postID=news_12042895 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-29-BL-KQED.jpg']Between 2005 and 2019, San Francisco’s homeless population grew nearly 49%, according to federal data, fueled in part by soaring home prices. But since Proposition C and the right-to-counsel programs have launched, the number of people experiencing homelessness in the city has remained relatively flat, increasing slightly from 8,035 in 2019 to 8,323 in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Lurie plans to eliminate $4.2 million from other forms of legal aid. Groups like Legal Assistance to the Elderly, for example, are slated to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars from their operating budgets, at a time when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940807/older-adults-are-now-the-fastest-growing-unhoused-population-in-california\">seniors are the fastest-growing unhoused population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a holistic approach to providing legal services. You can’t compartmentalize them,” said Ora Prochovnick, director of litigation and policy at the Eviction Defense Collaborative, which is not losing funding under Lurie’s budget proposal. “Although we’re thrilled that tenant right-to-counsel was not cut, we see the harm in other types of legal services being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with preserving the right-to-counsel programs, advocates are pressing the mayor to allocate $66 million in Proposition C dollars into existing homelessness prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness is plaguing the mental and physical health of hundreds of children, surmounting the barriers they face into adulthood and often leading to adult homelessness,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness, in a prepared statement. “It is imperative that we act to preserve funds allocated to homeless families through Prop. C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As budget negotiations continue this month, Tirtanadi of Open Door Legal is preparing to lose about 44% of the center’s operating budget. He has started the process of laying off nearly 15 staff members, which he estimates will translate to serving roughly 900 fewer families annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that could mean turning away clients like Nina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does the city expect us to do? We have ongoing cases, some of them have trials coming up,” Tirtanadi said. “It’s like being in the middle of surgery and putting down the tools and saying, ‘Ah, we ran out of money.’ You know? It’s just not ethical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While balancing the budget, Lurie is also trying to fulfill an ambitious campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> a goal still far from completion even as his first half-year approaches. On any given day, the online waitlist for shelter is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">hundreds of names long\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget, which must be finalized by the end of June, underscores an explicit shift toward investing in temporary shelter and transitional beds, rather than permanent supportive housing and prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Mayor’s proposed budget includes new investments to expand interim housing capacity to support immediate pathways from streets to stability for our most vulnerable residents,” the budget proposal reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reallocation comes about a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">the U.S. Supreme Court ruled\u003c/a> that cities can cite and arrest unhoused people who refuse offers of shelter. But San Francisco doesn’t have enough shelter to offer many of the people living on sidewalks or in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line Fulton Street near San Francisco City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To change that, Lurie also wants to tap into roughly $90 million over the next three years in existing dollars in the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to tax the city’s wealthiest companies and fund homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was quickly challenged in court by groups such as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the California Business Properties Association and the California Business Roundtable. In 2020, the California Supreme Court allowed the measure to move forward and revenue was finally released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the majority of Proposition C dollars are allocated toward permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:04 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> city council just \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038739/oakland-budget-keeps-fire-stations-closed-police-cuts-in-place-despite-new-sales-tax\">passed a spending plan\u003c/a> for the next two years, weeks ahead of the July 1 deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a process virtually unrecognizable from last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992752/oakland-budget-talks-drag-on-as-council-faces-huge-deficit-last-minute-changes\">amendment marathon\u003c/a>, the city’s budget team approved adjustments after just one meeting — with a goal of preserving the essential services Oaklanders want while addressing a major funding shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, who co-chaired the budget committee, said the quick work was the result of newfound collaboration amongst city leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are looking up for Oakland,” she told KQED. “It’s not just bickering and fighting, there’s a sense of cohesion and shared core values on this council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives conceded that the budget, which closes a $265 million deficit over the next two years, makes difficult cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In past budgets, the city of Oakland has unwisely tried to be all things to all people,” said Councilmember Zac Unger, who serves on the ad-hoc committee with Ramachandran, Rowena Brown and Charlene Wang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042381\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station 25 on Jan. 5, 2025, on Butters Drive in the East Oakland Hills.The amended budget from Oakland City Council cuts one police academy to keep fire stations open. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We simply don’t have the money to do that anymore,” Unger said, announcing the amendments Tuesday. “The first rule of getting yourself out of a hole is that you have to stop digging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amended budget passed with six yeses, with Carroll Fife excused and Noel Gallo casting the sole no vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran credited Councilmember Kevin Jenkins, who proposed the original budget while serving as interim mayor before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040935/barbara-lee-sworn-in-as-oaklands-mayor-says-today-marks-a-new-era\">Barbara Lee’s inauguration\u003c/a>, for giving her team a realistic and workable starting place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendments announced Tuesday removes the final fire station closure in the two-year budget, reverses employee layoffs and pads a reserve of $3 million to shield the city against likely state and federal funding cuts.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=news_12042374 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-1020x680.jpg']“Despite a $265 million shortfall, we are proud to have come up with creative solutions to invest in the basics, invest in core and essential city services,” Ramachandran said Tuesday. “We want public safety. We want clean streets. We want economic revitalization. This is what our residents are telling us, and our budget amendments [do] exactly that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the biggest changes to the budget proposed last month by then-interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins is a reallocation of police funds to try to increase the number of sworn officers with less money, cutting one of six police academies planned for the next two years, while increasing the department’s budget for recruiting prospective officers and funding to expedite hearings for officers placed on administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is well below its baseline staffing level of 700 sworn officers, which was set by November’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/measures#measure-nn\">Measure NN\u003c/a>. If the department fails to meet that level, its ability to collect parcel tax and the parking tax revenue the following year is reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the department has about 675 officers, about 100 of which at any given time are on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city could struggle to even maintain current staffing levels in the coming years after canceling two training academies scheduled for 2025 due to budget cuts this spring. According to the police commission, OPD loses about five officers per month to attrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ramachandran said that even with one fewer academy class, Oakland can take a smarter approach to increasing police staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Oakland Police Department squad car in downtown Oakland on April 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The city of Oakland hasn’t been able to actually ever put on six academies in decades,” she said. “It’s a lofty goal, but at the end of the day, we want solutions that are actually going to work, not just throwing money at a problem and hope that magically increases the police number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last five years, the average graduating class size for OPD academies has been 22. Last May, the graduating academy had just 12 new recruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, it’s natural that you’re going to have recruits dropping off, but to start at 22 instead of 42 and to end up with 12 [officers] for $4 million doesn’t make sense,” Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cutting one academy, the budget amendments would also add $220,000 to outreach efforts for police academies to help increase class sizes in a more cost-effective way, she said.[aside postID=news_12043062 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/026_KQEDScience_IntCommunitySchoolOakland_10202022_qed.jpg']The councilmembers believe OPD can also increase the number of officers in the field by speeding up Skelly hearings, which officers have to go through when placed on administrative leave before they can return to the job and to determine whether they will face disciplinary action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, there were 149 pending hearings and 42 officers on administrative leave, according to police commission reports. Eleven officers have been on administrative leave for between one and two years, which has cost the department nearly $3 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also now allocates $10 million more to the Fire Department’s budget to stop a rotating station brownout, which would have continued one of the most controversial budget cuts made in January after the city implemented a contingency budget to make up for unrealized revenue from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">stalled sale of the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in 20 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040592/all-oakland-fire-stations-open-ahead-of-wildfire-season-for-first-time-in-decades\">all 25 of the city’s fire stations have been open\u003c/a> for the last month. Before that, three stations, including two in the fire-prone Oakland Hills, had been shuttered throughout the year due to the budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the additional funding, the only necessary brownout would be for a three-month period this winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034725\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins addresses Oakland residents at an educational workshop about Oakland’s biennial budget process at the Main Library on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The amendments’ impact on labor partners is more of a mixed bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the councilmembers’ proposal would reverse eight layoffs and salary reductions planned across various departments, it also proposes budgeting lower starting salary steps for some city positions, predicted to save about $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said it’s common for new workers to come into the city making more than the minimum required by Oakland’s deals with labor partners. The amendment requests roles be budgeted based on the salary scales agreed upon, and that new recruits to non-exempt roles not come in at a starting salary that doesn’t exceed a certain step three on the salary scale, Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also focuses on clean street efforts, sideshow prevention and building up economic zones and new businesses – interests shared by Lee, who took over the office shortly after Jenkins’ proposal was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jenkins said during his budget briefing last month that Lee had not had much input in the spending plan, Ramachandran said she has been supportive of the council throughout the amendment process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The overwhelming majority of her priorities overlap with ours, and she’s being creative on her own on how we can try to seek and obtain money from the outside, which is her area of expertise coming into this process,” said Ramachandran, who frequently sparred with former Mayor Sheng Thao before her recall in November. “This is a process of shared respect, which was glaringly absent under the Sheng Thao administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The councilmembers believe OPD can also increase the number of officers in the field by speeding up Skelly hearings, which officers have to go through when placed on administrative leave before they can return to the job and to determine whether they will face disciplinary action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, there were 149 pending hearings and 42 officers on administrative leave, according to police commission reports. Eleven officers have been on administrative leave for between one and two years, which has cost the department nearly $3 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also now allocates $10 million more to the Fire Department’s budget to stop a rotating station brownout, which would have continued one of the most controversial budget cuts made in January after the city implemented a contingency budget to make up for unrealized revenue from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">stalled sale of the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in 20 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040592/all-oakland-fire-stations-open-ahead-of-wildfire-season-for-first-time-in-decades\">all 25 of the city’s fire stations have been open\u003c/a> for the last month. Before that, three stations, including two in the fire-prone Oakland Hills, had been shuttered throughout the year due to the budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the additional funding, the only necessary brownout would be for a three-month period this winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034725\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins addresses Oakland residents at an educational workshop about Oakland’s biennial budget process at the Main Library on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The amendments’ impact on labor partners is more of a mixed bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the councilmembers’ proposal would reverse eight layoffs and salary reductions planned across various departments, it also proposes budgeting lower starting salary steps for some city positions, predicted to save about $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said it’s common for new workers to come into the city making more than the minimum required by Oakland’s deals with labor partners. The amendment requests roles be budgeted based on the salary scales agreed upon, and that new recruits to non-exempt roles not come in at a starting salary that doesn’t exceed a certain step three on the salary scale, Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also focuses on clean street efforts, sideshow prevention and building up economic zones and new businesses – interests shared by Lee, who took over the office shortly after Jenkins’ proposal was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jenkins said during his budget briefing last month that Lee had not had much input in the spending plan, Ramachandran said she has been supportive of the council throughout the amendment process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The overwhelming majority of her priorities overlap with ours, and she’s being creative on her own on how we can try to seek and obtain money from the outside, which is her area of expertise coming into this process,” said Ramachandran, who frequently sparred with former Mayor Sheng Thao before her recall in November. “This is a process of shared respect, which was glaringly absent under the Sheng Thao administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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If we could just change that one thing about our country, it would be so much more equitable,” Tirtanadi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following news of Mayor Daniel Lurie’s new proposed budget, announced late May, general civil legal services in San Francisco are looking at a grim $4.2 million cut in funding. Open Door Legal stands to lose a potential $2.2 million loss in revenue, “at least” 15 staff members, one of the nonprofit’s four offices and a reduced caseload of roughly 900 fewer clients served each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual holds a sign reading “protect public services, no cuts no layoffs” at a rally in front of City Hall, where thousands of labor unions and community organizations are demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tirtanadi said he met with Lurie “several times” and pleaded with him not to make the cuts, which will impact six other legal aid nonprofits and target “general civil legal services,” or legal assistance outside immediate eviction threat, immigration and gender-based violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think injustice is easy to dismiss or to not fund because it’s basically invisible, right? 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According to a study conducted by Open Door Legal, 60% of people at risk of homelessness have general legal issues and 46% of people at risk of becoming homeless were able to stay housed because of free legal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past 10 years, 20% of the Bayview’s population had turned to them for help, roughly five to 10 families on every block.[aside postID=news_12035360 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS31143_GettyImages-514351304-qut-1020x674.jpg']For years, Tirtanadi pushed himself both physically and physiologically, working 80-hour weeks after seeing how much the community benefited from Open Door Legal’s resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember this client who broke down crying when we told her we would help her, because she had been to so many places — she had even been to, like abandoned buildings looking for legal help,” Tirtanadi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I remember people who had their assets stolen, their wages stolen, who got locked out of their homes by their landlord or sent into homelessness by abusers,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tirtanadi will begin his hunger strike on June 11 during a rally in front of City Hall with other legal aid groups and their supporters, as well as nine out of 11 supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open Door Legal is just one nonprofit left spiraling after Lurie announced he was “doubling down” to face the city’s $800 million deficit head-on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions, and I am prepared to make those decisions,” Lurie said in a statement. “When I say core services, I am talking about police, firefighters, emergency personnel, nurses, street cleaners, Muni operators and more — all the things that keep people safe and support our long-term economic growth.”[aside postID=news_12042881 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG030_qed-1020x680.jpg']At least one organization, the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Justice & Diversity Center, is facing elimination of all of its general civil services due to a $684,000 loss in funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To continue providing services, which include benefits for homeless and low-income individuals, bilingual family law services and pre-eviction tenant legal services, the organization needs a financial injection of around $880,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Ryland, a granting contracts manager at the Justice and Diversity Center, called the decision to “flat out” eliminate civil legal services as a funding category a shock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The civil legal services in San Francisco are an ecosystem, the safety net,” Ryland said. “These services form the connective glue that makes our service system comprehensive. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At least one organization, the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Justice & Diversity Center, is facing elimination of all of its general civil services due to a $684,000 loss in funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To continue providing services, which include benefits for homeless and low-income individuals, bilingual family law services and pre-eviction tenant legal services, the organization needs a financial injection of around $880,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Ryland, a granting contracts manager at the Justice and Diversity Center, called the decision to “flat out” eliminate civil legal services as a funding category a shock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The civil legal services in San Francisco are an ecosystem, the safety net,” Ryland said. “These services form the connective glue that makes our service system comprehensive. Without these services to fill in the gaps between the very specific and restricted services that are funded, the community will fall through the gaps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan on Wednesday unveiled his final city budget plan, setting up a handful of contentious votes next week on city spending, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031266/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahans-aggressive-plan-to-tackle-homelessness\">homelessness \u003c/a>and council pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his June Budget Message, the mayor asked the council to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">shift city funds\u003c/a> toward interim housing and shelter, in order to fill a $35.6 million budget shortfall in the fiscal year beginning July 1. The council will vote on that idea on Tuesday, along with a pair of ambitious Mahan proposals: one to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031813/san-jose-council-gives-initial-approval-mayors-controversial-homelessness-pay-plans\">potentially arrest\u003c/a> unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter and another that would tie the pay of city leaders to a series of performance metrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This budget message is all about focusing on the basics and increasing accountability for results,” Mahan told KQED. “I think accountability for the leadership at city hall is important, I’m calling on the city and county to be accountable for expanding shelter … and I’m saying that individuals in our community should be held accountable for coming indoors when there’s an appropriate shelter or treatment placement that is repeatedly offered to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José’s budget is in relatively good shape compared to the large deficits faced by city leaders in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038739/oakland-budget-keeps-fire-stations-closed-police-cuts-in-place-despite-new-sales-tax\">Oakland\u003c/a>. As a result, Mahan wrote that the balancing plan “avoids virtually all layoffs,” and adds five new positions to the city workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget plan also sets aside $27 million in reserves, in anticipation of a larger $52.9 million deficit in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balanced budget this year was largely achieved by using revenue raised from a tax on property sales of $2 million or more — approved by voters through Measure E in 2020 — to pay for the interim housing the city uses to shelter people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interim housing site is built near an unhoused community along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By default, three-quarters of the money raised through Measure E goes to build new permanently affordable housing. Mahan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">successfully\u003c/a> pushed to shift more of that money toward temporary housing in his first two budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, he proposed to spend up to 90% of Measure E revenue on shelter — a nearly $40 million shift that will cover the ongoing costs of the city’s interim housing units and erase the deficit — and to make that change permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move has drawn criticism from affordable housing advocates and some council members who argue a permanent funding shift will make it harder for new affordable apartments to get off the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we create opportunities for folks to come indoors through shelter, we need a place for folks who have stability to then transition and move forward,” Councilmember Pamela Campos told KQED. She called for investments “both in creating shelter opportunities and creating the outflow of affordable housing that allows people to continue on their journey to improving their lives.”[aside postID=news_12031813 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240409-SJEncampmentBan-045-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Campos also said the city should be spending more on programs that prevent homelessness (which receive 10% of Measure E funds ), such as rental assistance. She said that revenue would be a targeted investment to reduce the “hidden homelessness” experienced by 2,200 students in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our prevention dollars are one of the most impactful ways that we can stop the inflow of individuals, families, young adults and seniors on a limited income who are becoming homeless,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council will also vote Tuesday on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029843/san-jose-mayor-pushes-to-arrest-unhoused-who-refuse-shelter\">Mahan’s plan\u003c/a> to arrest people experiencing homelessness who have turned down multiple offers of shelter. The mayor has said the plan would open pathways for unhoused people into court-ordered treatment and encourage people experiencing homelessness near shelters to come indoors. County leaders have come out against the idea, arguing it will lead to a revolving door of citations and releases given the local shortage of shelter, affordable housing and treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan is also asking the council to withhold 5% of the mayor and council members’ salaries, to be paid or proportionally reduced based on whether the city meets a series of council-approved goals, such as reducing homelessness or crime. Mahan has billed the idea as building a greater level of accountability into city leadership, while some council members say it will restrict their flexibility and incentive to respond to emerging issues such as a wildfire or earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Measure E allocation and Mahan’s Responsibility to Shelter and Pay for Performance initiatives will each be voted on separately from the overall budget at Tuesday’s meeting. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 1,000 labor and community organizers flooded the steps of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s City Hall on Wednesday to protest Mayor Daniel Lurie’s proposed budget, which city workers and activists have said insufficiently protects public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposed budget completely misses the mark,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the city’s Coalition on Homelessness. “It’s really a politics-first budget that really deprioritizes the poorest and most vulnerable San Franciscans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest was described as “the biggest budget rally in about 20 years in San Francisco history” by Anya Worley-Ziegmann of the People’s Budget Coalition, a collective of nonprofits and activists that organized the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie proposed steep cuts to address the looming $782 million budget shortfall, as well as to bolster the city against the Trump administration’s threat to gut federal funding. That includes eliminating 1,400 city jobs — the vast majority of which currently sit vacant — and around $100 million in grants and other contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While dozens of union members with SEIU Local 1021 and IFPTE Local 21 received layoff notices, not all city departments will see job cuts. 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Ponce keeps stuffed animals in her office to help create a welcoming space, especially for the children in the community. All My Usos supports marginalized communities, especially Pacific Islander families in the Bay Area, through programs that build relationships and foster leadership. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You’re cutting the lifeline of many community members,” said Jessica Ponce, a program coordinator with All My Usos. “With these budget cuts, you’re cutting essential services and direct services, especially to families, and limiting their access to a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lurie’s proposed budget includes an additional $2.2 million to the Citywide Food Access Team, organizers say cuts elsewhere will trickle down and impact community-based organizations that partner with the city.[aside postID=news_12042515 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']The budget also proposes a restructuring of funding from Proposition C, a ballot measure that voters passed in 2018 to fund housing and homelessness services. The existing language specifies which funding can be used where, leaving millions of dollars unspent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal would reallocate that unused funding to plug holes elsewhere in the budget, sparking fierce opposition from homelessness advocacy groups for prioritizing adult shelter beds over housing for children and families. Friedenbach described the move as a way to create a “big slush fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most part, it would be moving [the money] from kids to grown-ups and from housing to shelter. That is something that we are vehemently opposed to,” she said. “We specifically structured Prop. C because we wanted to see efficient use of resources and that’s what the voters supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s office, however, describes the reallocation as a way to unlock funding that may otherwise never be used to address homelessness in the city. 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Advocates noted that the proposal maintained funding for the city’s police, sheriff, fire, district attorney, public defender and emergency management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual holds a sign reading “protect public services, no cuts no layoffs” at a rally in front of City Hall, where thousands of labor unions and community organizations are demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some departments are getting increases, those are the SFPD and the sheriff’s office,” Worley-Ziegmann said. “Daniel Lurie has marked them out as essential services, completely ignoring the fact that people need to eat, people need housing, they do not need mass arrests and jails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Sorros is a member of SEIU Local 1021 and has spent more than 19 years working for the city. 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